Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great breach in the wall of silence about the ancient world is the Old Testament. This extraordinary book pulses with the record of stirring events that took place 1,500 years before Herodotus. Armies march and kings conspire in its lively pages. Prophets thunder their warnings; courtiers and diplomats conspire subtly. Commoners love and hate, worship and sin, bear children and tend their vineyards...
...Mass by watching television coverage of John Kennedy's funeral, and even with the scholarly help of a priestly commentator it was for many a puzzling ritual. There, on TV, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing stood dressed in odd black garments, droning Latin phrases toward the east" wall of the cathedral, striding from one side of the altar to the other as he ceremonially poured wine into a chalice or read from a black-bound missal. Much of the mystery will soon be modified. Last week Pope Paul VI formally promulgated the first and almost only concrete accomplishment...
...ever made a more stirring address to businessmen," said Wall Street Broker Sidney Weinberg, "and in 30 years I've heard a lot of them...
...liquidation by the Stock Exchange, Bache & Co. last week bought three of Haupt's Manhattan branch offices and another in Denver, and is negotiating for more of Haupt's 14 branch offices. It was the first liquidation of any member firm by the Stock Exchange, and Wall Street did not like the feel of it. The Street is already looking ahead to minimize the chance of any future failures among brokerage houses. At week's end the Exchange appointed two top-level committees, one to study how the Exchange might change its rules to protect customers better...
...good fortune to hire a young engineering genius named Paul Weeks Litchfield, who came up with a more easily detachable auto tire than any on the market and by 1916 had built the company into the largest tiremaker. Litchfield took full control of the company in 1921, when Wall Street bankers pushed out the Seiberlings on the ground that they had dangerously overextended the company. (The Seiberlings then started another company under their own name, which now ranks twelfth). Litchfield stayed with Goodyear until his death in 1959, but left behind a protege to run the company...